Panic! at the Disco

Released: March 18, 2011

Songwriter: John Feldmann Spencer Smith Brendon Urie

Producer: John Feldmann Butch Walker

[Verse 1]
I was fine, just a guy living on my own
Waiting for the sky to fall
Then you called and changed it all, doll
Velvet lips and the eyes to pull me in
We both know you'd already win
Mmm, your original sin

[Pre-Chorus]
You fooled me once with your eyes now, honey
You fooled me twice with your lies, and I say

[Chorus]
Sarah smiles like Sarah doesn't care
She lives in her world so unaware
Does she know that my destiny lies with her
Sarah (Sarah, Sarah, Sarah)
Oh Sarah (Sarah), are you saving me?

[Verse 2]
Waking up to a kiss and you're on your way
I really hoped that you would stay
But you left and went your own way, babe
I don't mind, take your time, I got things to do
Besides sit around and wait for you
Oh, and I hope you do too

[Pre-Chorus]
You fooled me once with your eyes now, honey
You fooled me twice with your lies, and I say

[Chorus]
Sarah smiles like Sarah doesn't care
She lives in her world so unaware
Does she know that my destiny lies with her
Sarah
Oh Sarah, are you saving me?

[Bridge]
And it's killing me inside
Consuming all my time, you've left me blind
And when I think I'm right, you strip away my pride
You cast it all aside but I say

[Chorus]
Sarah smiles like Sarah doesn't care
She lives in her world so unaware
Does she know that my destiny lies with her
Sarah (Sarah)
Oh Sarah (Sarah), are you saving me?

Named after a line from Name Taken’s “Panic,” Panic! at the Disco was formed by drummer Spencer Smith, bassist Brent Wilson, guitarist Ryan Ross, and vocalist Brendon Urie, and founded in 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada. While crafting pop-influenced songs with theatrical themes, quirky techno beats, and perceptive lyrics, they received some much-deserved attention.

They became the first group signed on Pete Wentz’s (bassist in Fall Out Boy) record label, Decaydance Records (now DCD2 Records). Their hit song that started it all, “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” remains one of their top two top forty songs along with “Hallelujah.”

They have released six studio A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, Pretty. Odd., Vices & Virtues, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!, Death of a Bachelor, and now their most recent album Pray for the Wicked. These last two albums were actually solo projects from Brendon Urie, since all the other members of the band had already left the group before their release dates; in 2006, bassist Brent Wilson was fired due to his “lack of responsibility and the fact that he wasn’t progressing musically with the band.” And in 2009, guitarist Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker left the band to “embark on a musical excursion of their own,” forming The Young Veins. Dallon Weekes, who joined the band as a bassist and songwriter in 2009, had become a touring member only by the time Death of a Bachelor was released and later left the band completely in order to focus on his own music. Weekes was replaced by Nicole Row, the first female member of the band.

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